Earl https://www.shawnconn.com/authors/earl en Apocalypse https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/apocalypse <article role="article" class="quote teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/apocalypse" rel="bookmark"><span>Apocalypse</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/apocalypse" rel="tag" title="Apocalypse" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Apocalypse</span></a></li></ul><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.</div> </div> </article> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:28:56 +0000 Shawn Conn 38 at https://www.shawnconn.com Life's Tradegy https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/life-s-tradegy <article role="article" class="quote teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/life-s-tradegy" rel="bookmark"><span>Life's Tradegy</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/life-s-tradegy" rel="tag" title="Life's Tradegy" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Life's Tradegy</span></a></li></ul><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and then again within those twenty-four hours. It's a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day.</p></div> </div> </article> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:24:18 +0000 Shawn Conn 37 at https://www.shawnconn.com